10/25/2010

Special briefing on the division of Korea

In the course of their participation at the FNF-IFES International Conference on “Politics of German Unification: Lessons for the Korean Peninsula”, Manfred Richter, treasurer of the board of FNF directors, Klaus Gollert, former minister of health, labour and social affairs to the federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Falk Bomsdorf, former director of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty to Russia, Rainer Adam, regional director of the FNF’s Southeast and East-Asia regional office in Bangkok and Walter Klitz, the resident representative of the foundation in Korea had the chance to visit the demilitarized zone the day after the conference. Accompanied by the German military attaché, colonel Rainer Schwickart, they were given a comprehensive briefing into the Korean division by LTCol. Michael T. Eggers, the joint duty officer of the United States Army. 

You may take a look at what they saw at the DMZ by following this link.